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About: Tiffany Wang, Student Fellow

Tiffany Wang is a rising 2L who grew up in the Bay Area and received her BS in Biology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She is a staff editor for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly Journal and the current co-internal vice president of the Hastings Health Law Organization. Prior to law school, Tiffany worked as a public law legal secretary and political compliance clerk at Rutan and Tucker, LLP, and was actively involved in the creation of the Young Professional Council, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center’s nonprofit junior board. In her spare time, Tiffany enjoys going hiking, camping, traveling the world, and experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.

Within the past few months, federal agencies passed two major healthcare regulations that could have significant consequences to the healthcare market. The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule on Association Health Plans (AHPs) that expands the definition of “employer” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury issued a final rule that expands access to short-term, limited-duration coverage plans (STLDs). The two plans should not be conflated with each other as they offer health insurance coverage …

Happy September! We hope you’ve enjoyed the Labor Day weekend and ready for the fall! In this edition of The Source Roundup, we cover five academic articles and reports from July and August. This month we look at (1) monopoly in the ACA marketplace; (2) the recent Ohio v. American Express U.S. Supreme Court decision; and a trio of articles that examine accountable care organizations in terms of (3) ACO growth in 2018; (4) ACO effectiveness in reducing health care costs; and (5) the proposed changes to ACOs in the …

Happy August! In this edition of the Source Roundup, we cover four academic articles and reports from June and July. The topics this month include: (1) price transparency as a means to affordable health care; (2) effect of state-based individual mandates; (3) Trump’s 5-Part Medicare Part D plan; and (4) Medicare’s experiment with bundled payments. Price Transparency Goals to Achieve Affordable Health Care Skeptics have questioned whether consumer price transparency initiatives are an effective means of driving down healthcare costs. In the NEJM Catalyst article, “Defining the Goals of …